OKAY! I've had time to check out the new incarnation. I made my browser as narrow as possible, in an effort to consider how it might look as an app on a phone. If the app displays any other way than what I'm seeing with my google chrome browser, my suggestions might not apply.
Having the "most recent" up on top and highlighted is perfect, EXCEPT that menu bar needs to be just tiny bit lower, because a mouse click or finger tap could end up hitting the button above it by mistake, they're too close together.
1. When I narrow the browser, I see the title of the new post, and the name of the most recent poster and date - but no category. I feel the date should be moved to the title of the new post, and the category (or at least the first column inch of it) remain visible, and the column for date/member be eliminated. This is when the browser is narrowed - the full version would still display as always.
2. Skins. Forum developers and frequent forum users would recognize the term. We need a selection, user-side, that we can choose from. Some of us are fine with dark text on white background. Some might prefer light on dark, and I guess some would like funky color schemes and layouts. It would be nice to have a few different skins for users to choose from.
3. Ditch the "home" button since the "Talk of The Villages" banner at the top is already a clickable command button. And that command button would always bring the user back to the home page. I prefer this on all websites, not just the ToTV forum.
4. After each "section" of the forum, I would like to see a "top of page" command button. That way anyone who is finished looking at category "q" can easily get back to the top without having to scroll up.
5. For the category window, I would like to see just ONE line with the category title - and if you mouse over it, or click that category, or touch your screen on that line, you see a description of that category. This way you will see a complete list, much easier on a cell phone, instead of having to scroll endlessly through paragraphs of every single category and subcategory to find the category of interest to you.
In all, I feel the tweaks you made since I first saw it, have improved the look and feel significantly. I like it.
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